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[STEMO]

Did you not read the title of the thread? For me, I said. I'm not interested in what anyone else thinks so shut up.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Low power cars can be fun, as you have to get everything just right in order to keep up. That can be really satisfying ...


...until the next straight, when you hard fought overtake is nulled as you are annihilated in the next straight.

So, you've driven a 190D then. 

[biggriffin]

However I was once out accelerated by a Volvo tractor unit without it's trailer.  He just put his foot down, I think to show me who was boss, and roared away.  I suspect he had no limiter fitted / connected, and I researched at the time what engine he could have had, to discover it was of the largest turbo units type that Volvo build for lorry units.  I have often wondered what his mpg was

It was impressive though.  It made me wish I had the space under the miggie bonnet to fit one of those.  F.ck the mpg, I, just wanted one of those

The largest volvo at the moments is the Fh16,750bhp, 8mpg should be achievable at 44tonne, as for acceleration, tractor unit only 0-56, would make quite a few cars embarrassed, the Fh13, 500bhp isn't no slouch either.

[Doctor Gollum]

You get better traction with a trailer on the back, although it needs to be empty to maintain respectable performance in the traffic light gp that and put the ishift intomanual mode... bury your right foot and knock it up every time the revs hit 3500...

[Lizzie Zoom]

However I was once out accelerated by a Volvo tractor unit without it's trailer.  He just put his foot down, I think to show me who was boss, and roared away.  I suspect he had no limiter fitted / connected, and I researched at the time what engine he could have had, to discover it was of the largest turbo units type that Volvo build for lorry units.  I have often wondered what his mpg was

It was impressive though.  It made me wish I had the space under the miggie bonnet to fit one of those.  F.ck the mpg, I, just wanted one of those

The largest volvo at the moments is the Fh16,750bhp, 8mpg should be achievable at 44tonne, as for acceleration, tractor unit only 0-56, would make quite a few cars embarrassed, the Fh13, 500bhp isn't no slouch either.

Thanks for the info. The Volvo certainly left me standing.

To think his mpg is only just under half of what I achieve most of the time, and I haven't got 44 tonnes on the back!

[biggriffin]

However I was once out accelerated by a Volvo tractor unit without it's trailer.  He just put his foot down, I think to show me who was boss, and roared away.  I suspect he had no limiter fitted / connected, and I researched at the time what engine he could have had, to discover it was of the largest turbo units type that Volvo build for lorry units.  I have often wondered what his mpg was

It was impressive though.  It made me wish I had the space under the miggie bonnet to fit one of those.  F.ck the mpg, I, just wanted one of those

The largest volvo at the moments is the Fh16,750bhp, 8mpg should be achievable at 44tonne, as for acceleration, tractor unit only 0-56, would make quite a few cars embarrassed, the Fh13, 500bhp isn't no slouch either.

Thanks for the info. The Volvo certainly left me standing.

To think his mpg is only just under half of what I achieve most of the time, and I haven't got 44 tonnes on the back!

   

check the bottom figure.  

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[Sir Tigger KC]

check the bottom figure.  

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PUT YOUR SEATBELT ON!      

[biggriffin]

no need to shout. ,

[BazaJT]

If that is what one of "our"trucks achieve what kind of figures are they getting from one of those huge Australian land train jobs?

[Doctor Gollum]

100l/km on steeper hills

[Doctor Gollum]

This thread should be titled "The futility of being stuck behind and £80k Porsche doing 37mph on one of the best bits of driving road in Sussex..."

I reckon there's a market for a Porsche Cayenne/Audi Q7/Toerag etc with a 1.2 Tsi lump for circa £75-90k

I should perhaps add that passing them at a speed the road should be driven at may only serve get me to the back of the next caravan/camper quicker, but at least I could say I enjoyed catching them up...

[Viral_Jim]

^^this^^

I used to work with a guy who owned a 435d. Serious piece of kit, every night going home I'd pass him in my 9-5 aero (all 275bhp and nearly 2 tonne) like he was standing still! I honestly don't think it ever saw the naughty side of 70mph.

His PCP is up this year and he's swapped it for.... an M4  . And not just that, but an M4 with that hardcore go-faster pack thingy 

I mean, I'm all for what makes you happy, but I just honestly can't understand the motivation, I mean, he wouldn't get near troubling the performance limits of a 420d m sport. 

[TheBoy]

On the flip side to Dr G and jimmy944, my old ZX10 was, even in todays world, quicker than most cars on the road.  But I never really rode it fast - my thrills came from the acceleration, and that feeling you get when you get a corner just right, and power nicely out of it.   I never maxed it out, or even attempted to.  The time I rode it the fastest, I remember thinking to myself "this is a 20yr old bike, if anything fell of now, it would probably hurt".  Whilst pondering that thought, a car pulled out in front of me, and I swear it felt like my back wheel was in the air, and the front suspension fully bottomed out.

That said, unless you can see a particular danger, I believe the speed limit should be the target.

[Doctor Gollum]

Was driving back along said stretch last night thinking how nice it was that there were no caravans or bikes around... not a road to ride a bike along in the dark as most of the bends and crests are blind...

[Sir Tigger KC]

Was driving back along said stretch last night thinking how nice it was that there were no caravans or bikes around... not a road to ride a bike along in the dark as most of the bends and crests are blind...

Au contrare, country twisties are great in the dark, as you can see if someone is coming the other way. 

Unless they're driving with no lights on!